Matching wine with food

[Thomas]

Is it really cranberry-flavored wine? I mean, a real wine that is infused with cranberry? If so, that seems a worse choice to me than a drink produced by fermenting cranberries which, as we have pointed out many times, is not wine. Wine can be produced only from grapes--both technically and semantically. In case you are interested in why I say that:

The grape is the only fruit that, when ripe, has natural yeast and the right level of sugar to ferment to 12% by volume alcohol without human intervention and with nothing added.

The word "wine" stems from an ancient word that literally refers to "the juice of fermented grapes."



[This message has been edited by foodie (edited 11-15-2003).]